Apple Silicon|Intel

Laptop Core i9-13980HX smashes 30K barrier in Cinebench, outperforming AMD's Ryzen 9 7900X

Forward-looking: Intel's brand new Core i9-13980HX mobile chip just broke the 30,000 barrier in Cinebench R23, making it one of the fastest CPUs to date -- excluding any distinctions between desktop and mobile SKUs. With this result the 13980HX was able to outperform several high performance desktop CPUs from both Intel and AMD, including the 12-core Ryzen 9 7900X and 16-core

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Intel Core i9-13980HX “laptop” CPU is faster than AMD Threadripper 2990WX in Cinebench test

Intel Core i9-13980HX ‘laptop’ processor scores 30K points in Cinebench R23

Jarrod’sTech provides a very first look at MSI’s 2023 gaming laptops.

MSI sent over two of their latest enthusiast laptops to Jarrod for a short overview. These are GE78 Raider and GT77 Titan, both equipped with the flagship parts, such as most powerful GeForce RTX 4090 GPU and 24-core Core i9-1

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Intel 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" Support Coming To Coreboot

Intel last week introduced the 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors and kicking off this week is an exciting new development: patches are pending for upstreaming Sapphire Rapids processor support into the open-source Coreboot!

A set of patches are now public and out for review today in upstreaming support for these new Intel Xeon Scalable processors into Coreboot. Additionally, the patch series gets Intel's "Archer City" dual socket Sapphire Rapids reference motherboard booting with Coreboot.

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初代MacBook Air發佈15週年:從信封走出的“世界最薄筆記本電腦”

2008年1月15日的Macworld上,Steve Jobs從馬尼拉信封中拿出了MacBook Air,這是Steve Jobs最經典的發佈時刻之一。Steve Jobs在發佈的新聞稿裏稱之為“世界最薄筆記本電腦,而且沒有犧牲全尺寸鍵盤或全尺寸13英寸顯示屏”。

初代Macbook Air最厚處為


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Basic OpenGL ES Compute Shader Support Begins Working For The Apple GPU Linux Driver

The open-source developers working on developing the Rust-written Linux DRM kernel driver for Apple M1/M2 graphics as well as the Mesa AGX Gallium3D driver in user-space have now managed to successfully run a basic OpenGL ES 3.1 compute shader on the hardware with this open-source driver stack.

The developers involved in bringing up the Direct Rendering Manager kernel driver and OpenGL Gallium3D driver (there's also a work-in-progress Vulkan driver) had been working on
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AMD將提供新版AGESA BIOS:修復雙CCD鋭龍7600X性能問題

此前AMD發佈了適用於AM5平台的AGESA 1.0.0.4微碼,不過有玩家發現更新了固件以後,Ryzen 5 7600X處理器出現了嚴重的性能下降問題。受到影響的主要是配備雙CCD芯片的Ryzen 5 7600X處理器,AMD似乎停用了Core0,在某


Apple Silicon|Intel

Acer Predator GM7 SSD Has Banned Chinese Fab's Flash, Planned for US Market

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Apple's M2 Pro and M2 Max MacBook Pros Reportedly Delayed Again

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Apple launched the current-generation MacBook Air in June 2022 with a new M2 SoC. It was expected that Apple would launch M2 Pro and M2 Max equipped 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros during Fall 2022. Unfortunately, the refresh never came, and MacBook Pros continue to be sold with M1 Pro and M1 Max SoCs

DigiTimes is now reporting that the M2 Pro/M2 Max MacBook Pro

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AMD Fixes Botched Ryzen Firmware That Accidentally Disabled CPU Cores

Ryzen 7000 (Image credit: AMD)

The Ryzen 5 7600X is one of the best CPUs for budget consumers. However, AMD's AGESA ComboAM5PI 1.0.0.4 firmware with SMU 84.79.204 unintentionally disabled cores on Ryzen 5 7600X chips with dual-CCD designs. The revamped AMD firmware with the new SMU 84.79.210 has seemingly fixed this problem.

The previous

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Samsung Launches First SSDs Based on 5nm Controller

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Samsung on Thursday introduced its new PM9C1a solid-state drive that uses a controller built using a 5 nanometer-class process technology. The innovative production node allowed Samsung to substantially cut power consumption of the SSD controller and therefore reduce power consumption of the whole drive. The PM9C1a family is aimed primarily at mainstream and performance-mainstream notebooks.

From performance point of view, Samsung's PM9C1a offer an up to 6 GB/s

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